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ments, and added fome more ; but my want of lei- 
fure and the badnefs of the weather prevented me. I 
am very fenfible of the imperfection of this effay, and 
that it does not deferve the attention of that learned 
body, to which you are defirous to communicate it ; 
but as it may perhaps excite fome more able hand to 
purlue the fame fubjedt, or induce fome benevolent 
minds to make a well of fuch virtues more extenfively 
ufeful, by adding fome proper accommodations to it, 
I do not hefitate to offer it to you, crude as it is. 
An Account of fome Experiments made upon Malvern- 
Water, at the Spring-head , Sept, i y, 1743, being 
a warm , clear Day , in a dry Seajcn . 
1. At the fpring-head it is extremely cold. 
2. It leaves a peculiar pertnefs, or acrimony in 
the throat, after it is fwallowed, when drank im- 
mediately from the fpring j but grows remarkably 
fofter upon keeping, more efpecially if the place be 
not very cool. 
3. Upon pouring it, when frefh taken from the 
fpring, into a large deep velfel, a great number of 
very l'rnall air-bubbles arofe from the bottom, and 
continued to do fo for a great while together. 
4. Some powder’d loaf fugar being put into aglafs 
of the water caufed at firft no alteration ; but when 
the fugar began to diffolve, an extraordinary num- 
ber of air- bubbles arofe inceffantly, and continued 
to dofo for a very confiderable time. 
y. Being mixt with volatile fpirit of fal ammoniac, 
it acquir'd a very dilute, bluifli tindture, but re- 
main’d equally tranfparcnt as at firft, without the 
It aft 
